Background Info:

The Crawley-born wicketkeeper passed 1,000 runs for the first time in Championship cricket last season and was rewarded with a new three-year contract extension, seeing him remain at Hove until at least the end of 2018. He is now vice-captain of the side across all three formats and averaged 44.82 including four centuries in last year’s Championship. His best of 144 not out came in the victory over Hampshire at the Ageas Bowl in Sussex’s first outing of the season. He spent some of the winter working Gary Kirsten in South Africa.